As previously published on The Guidebook—the outdoor blog for Chaco sandals Date: 7/6/19 I wasn’t always this soft. Age and a career in front of a computer has a way of doing that, slowly obscuring who we really are underneath. Some people go to church to be renewed. I come here. For me, “here” has…
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It Always Ends Too Soon
Date: 4/20/19 Miles: 13.0 Total Miles: 89.0 If you’re looking for signs that you’re on the MRT, keep waiting. They don’t exist. That will change one day when word of mouth begins to work its magic on this little known route, and for many of us, it’s exactly that untrammeled state of infancy that makes…
Canyoneering 101
Date: 4/19/19 Miles: 18.3 Total Miles: 75.8 The 5:30am alarm came as early as ever, this time with the added realization of just how cold a night it had been. Each bundled in our warm layers, we broke camp as quickly as we could to start moving and even then still kept on down jackets…
No Country For Old Men
Date: 4/18/19 Miles: 16.5 Total Miles: 57.5 The sweltering oppressiveness of a Deep South summer in To Kill a Mockingbird that hangs in the air with the same suffocation as that of the story’s racial injustice. The silent and hopeless expansiveness of the Texas desert that is nearly as menacing as its villain in No…
Mmm, That Looks Delicious
Date: 4/17/19 Miles: 20.0 Total Miles: 41.0 The rain that had rocked us to sleep was now a distant memory, the moisture on the lowland grasses and the faintly muddy trail the only reminders that it had even been there at all. The morning began with some brief x-country walking followed by a climb up…
